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LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance

posted by martyb on Friday May 04 2018, @08:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the Nice-Big-CoC dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Rafael Avila de Espindola, one of the top contributors to the LLVM compiler toolset, has cut ties with the open source project over what he perceives as code of conduct hypocrisy and support for ethnic favoritism. In a message posted to the LLVM mailing list, de Espindola said he was leaving immediately and cited changes in the community.

LLVM project founder, Chris Lattner responded; "I applaud Rafael for standing by his personal principles, this must have been a hard decision." Lattner also insisted that "it is critical to the long term health of the project that we preserve an inclusive community."

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday May 07 2018, @06:25PM (1 child)

    by Arik (4543) on Monday May 07 2018, @06:25PM (#676723) Journal
    Sure, linux is a minor little project, never thrived. Probably dead already after years of Linus' blunt postings.

    /me shakes head.

    You seem to be sincere so I'm going to try to be nice, but that was a dumb post no matter how you read it.
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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday May 11 2018, @05:01PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday May 11 2018, @05:01PM (#678480) Journal

    Sure, linux is a minor little project, never thrived. Probably dead already after years of Linus' blunt postings.

    Linux isn't doing so well. Google is investing heavily in Fuscia because the Linux community is so painful to deal with. I'm hearing the same from a number of other companies: it's hard to find people who are competent to do kernel work and willing to interact with Linus and his group. Most of the success of 'Linux' is the success of other projects (Android, KDE, GNOME, and so on), or of out-of-tree forks of Linux (e.g. ChromeOS).

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